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current work details

Roles: WRITER

Company: RENALDO'S LIMITED

Where I work: I am an individual working from home

Technical Skills: Writing, Script Analysis & Script Doctoring, Teaching

Resources/ Expertise: 20 years experience as critic, script reader, script doctor

Availability: Paid Work or Collaboration

training

MA Theatre Studies, University of Lancaster, 1986-87
Many short screenwriting courses 1990-1995
Learning on the job!!

personal info

Films I wish I had made:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, THE LADYKILLERS, RESERVOIR DOGS, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, THE PIANO, RAISING ARIZONA, PEEPING TOM, WHITE HEAT

I cried watching:
THE MISSION (buckets!), THE ELEPHANT MAN, FEARLESS, LORENZO'S OIL, 21 GRAMS

I left the cinema during:
I never walk out. I fell asleep in DEATH IN VENICE. Visconti, cinematic genius, eh? Pretentious bollocks more like. And Woody Allen. Don't talk to me about Woody Allen. Have you tried watching Scenes from a Mall?

Directors I love:
Kubrick (up to & including THE SHINING), Tarkovsky, The Coen Brothers, Almodovar, Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Ridley Scott (mostly...), Peter Weir, Gilles MacKinnon, Antonia Bird, The Coppolas - Francis Ford & now Sofia

Actors I admire:
James Cagney, Bogart, Hepburn & Bacall, Peter Lorre, Bette Davis, Jack Lemmon, Meryl Streep, Tim Robbins & Susan Sarandon, Sigourney Weaver, Nic Cage, Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Hurt, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone, Tim Roth, Michael Caine, Gabriel Byrne, Jude Law, all Redgraves & Richardsons, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Paul Nicholls, Carmen Maura, Gong Li, Anna Paquin & I could go on all day....

My desert island discs:
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF REM, And THE WHO, And MADONNA, And PET SHOP BOYS, And lots of dance music, And Arvo Part, And Jan Gabarek

Books I have given my friends:
A SUITABLE BOY, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, IT (Stephen King)

My death row meal:
Lamb done Moroccan style with spices & apricots, Summer pudding, A vat of Chardonnay

The best thing I own:
My enormous talent and imagination

More:
That's it really!